2) Sharing HIVE focuses on continuing education for library, museum, and archival professionals by reinforcing the importance of new enabling technologies that can assist them with developing and using controlled vocabularies.

3) Evaluating HIVE involves examining how the HIVE model works both within the “test-bed” of the Dryad repository (a digital repository linking data objects supporting published research) and in the larger library, museum, and archival environment.

The HIVE approach and model is designed to serve many audiences, and cater to the growing controlled vocabulary needs of curatorial and cataloging information professionals in the library, museum, and archival community. As our “sandbox,” Dryad will use HIVE to help scientist-author contributors in the digital repository environment describe data objects in the field of evolutionary biology.

HIVE partners include vocabulary leaders from the Library of Congress, the Getty Research Institute (GRI), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS); an advisory board of national and international metadata and vocabulary experts; and workshop coordinators at leading university and information centers.